You Who Call Me Brother [China]

The simple fact of Japan being here, in China's house, does not bother Vietnam in the least. If anything, it's a good thing - she trusts that if anyone can help Japan see the error of his ways, it would be China. It's not that but the way that it happened that so troubles her - has China even considered what will happen when Japan heals? It would be quite different if the Japanese people had been properly defeated, then it would be quite easy to keep him contained, but this is just waiting to explode in China's face. Especially since the Alliance is sure to object.

But he's her oldest brother - he likes to assume that he knows everything, so she will not correct him. Just like she knows full well that the panda is Russia wearing a costume - her extremely ancient and wise brother doesn't need her to inform him of such things. She didn't notice him in the corner until he moved, or else she wouldn't have bothered to ask about him. Does this make the impending mess bigger or not? To be on the safe side, she'll assume that it's going to be bigger. Well, that means that she shouldn't stay for very long.

Simply nodding to her brother's no longer necessary reply, a slight frown comes to her lips as Russia sits on Japan's face. As much as she greatly appreciates Russia and is troubled by Japan, this she finds to be completely uncalled for. In fact, her thoughts run along similar lines as Japan's: a pointless and tasteless thing to do. Can't he see that Japan is recovering from being shot? But she'll can't judge him too harshly - she must make allowances for the fact that he wasn't raised by China and therefore never learned proper manners.

In fact, aside from the slight frown she doesn't really react to the situation at all, since China seems to be handling that problem. Though, after a few moments, a smile comes to her face as she says, "Would Panda like a belly rub? He loves my belly rubs!" Stepping over to where China is cuddling him, she attempts to give him one.

Panda’s squeeze satisfied him that he understood and wasn’t going to do that to Japan anymore. China’s instantly forgave him, Panda could be a bit too playful at times. He crawled over Japan as Veitnam captured Panda’s attention and he chuckled softly at the poke. Panda was just playing.

Kiku didn’t seem to be playing however. He was still upset about everything that happened, but one day he would thank him. China was saving Kiku from his own destruction. He didn’t understand why he just didn’t surrender. China could keep him safe from all of those that he called friends. They were the worst kind and they would turn on him as quickly as they flocked to him. Of course, China found himself in the same position. He knew if things were different Ivan would turn on him the first moment he could, but he was aware of this and planned to never let it happen.

He smiled as Panda wandered off, probably off to go eat as usual. Just feeding that bear was costly enough. Panda’s eat a lot in one day!

China laid back down next to Kiku, now on the other side and wrapped his arms around him. He was careful not to move him too quickly as he tried to scoot him toward his chest. He tucked his headc to his shoulder, taking in his scent. Japan always smelt so good. He began to kiss his shoulder and up the side of his neck to his jaw. He had missed this so much. Why didn’t Kiku? Why was he not good enough for him anymore? There was no way that the stupid boy was better than him in any area. Germany was ridiculously stiff and Italy was just an idiot.

“You are being so quiet Kiku….I know you don’t feel well but I’ve done a lot to make sure you get better quickly. I’ve given you the best room…The softest sheets….Would you like tea Kiku? ” He asked and nuzzled his nose to the back of his ear. When Vietnam went home he could make him feel better in other ways. Of course she was always welcome to stay and he wished she would but she had already said she was leaving quickly.

The shocked look of surprise that comes to Vietnam's face when her hand is swatted away is completely faked, but she puts a good show of being surprised that for once Panda doesn't seem to be at all interested in a belly rub. But of course she'd been expecting something like that - she doubted that Russia was so dedicated to his masquerade that he'd permit something like that. But if he wants to have such boundaries respected, then she considers herself worthy of having the same in return - and Japan is one of them.

He may be the enemy and, unlike China seems to be, she's under no delusions about that and just how difficult it would be to change his mind. Still, he's her brother and even enemies can be afforded a certain level of respect if they deserve it. There is, after all, a huge difference between between respecting someone and coddling them. And open disrespect of her siblings is not something she takes very lightly at all - family matters a lot to her.

Knowing that China is preoccupied with Japan, she doesn't bother to hide the frown on her face as Russia leaves. And when he's gone, her attention returns to her brothers. It doesn't disturb her at all that China is being so affectionate toward Japan - that merely makes her roll her eyes at him internally. It's Japan's response that she finds disturbing. And that only because she saw how upset he was when she first arrived - this is quite the abrupt turn-around, and that combined with his sleepiness causes her to feel some concern.

Which is what prompts her to step over to her brothers and, completely ignoring what they're doing, she rests the back of her hand on Japan's forehead for a moment with a frown on her face. Hmm... Well, she knows who to blame then.

Quite abruptly she slaps China on the back of the head - not nearly as strongly as she could if she wanted to, but not at all gently either. "Are you going to act your age, or should I give you two some privacy?" she asks, her voice at once sharp and sarcastic, disgusted and angry, scolding and very disapproving. Which must mean that she's absolutely raging on the inside - it's extremely rare for her to ever actually show her anger toward China, let alone let it come into her voice, let alone to express it physically. The last time was probably centuries ago. He's the one who even literally beat much of that tendency out of her, after all. He's the one who she allows to take the lead in pretty much anything besides that which infringes on her independence. He's the one who scolds her, not the other way around.

China’s heart lightened when Kiku turned toward him. He nuzzled closer but was taken by surprise at the sudden kisses. He accepted each one graciously. “I’m here Kik-kun…I’m right here and you’re not going anywhere. You can stay right here with me, where you can be safe. I’ll take care of you and we’ll sit out front and talk for hours…Like we used to….Just us…Won’t that be great Kiku?” He smiled and traced his fingers over his skin.

His hand ran over a bandage and his light heart fell slightly to sadness. He didn’t want to have to hurt Kiku. It was sad that it had to come to this to get him home. He supposed it could be worse…Kiku could have gone the way of Hong Kong, whom he hadn’t seen in 2 years except for once at the fridge stealing his juice. Upon sight Hong Kong had ran from him and locked himself in his room again. He never comes out! At least not when he’s home. He knew the boy was sneaking out without his permission!

But he had never wanted it to come to hurting Kiku. He never wanted any of his siblings to come to such harm or be in such disarray. Why couldn’t they all just come home and be happy with him? They could all bring each other such joy. Just like the joy that Kiku was bringing him by closing the gap between them both. He was losing himself in his kiss, letting him get as close as he wanted.

But all of his comfort was shattered in a moment. The rough thwack to the back of his his broke his kiss with Kiku and made his shift back in the bed. He lifted and looked behind him at Veitnam. “Ow! What have I told you about hitting!” He grumbled and touched Kiku’s chin as he slipped out of the bed again. He wanted to let him know he wasn’t planning on going far. His sister was obviously jealous of the attention and clearly forgetting her manners. “Fine then… Would you like to help Thi? I have a feeling I will be up most of night with Kiku. I would enjoy some of that coffee you are so good at making.” He tried to keep her busy so she wouldn’t strike him again if he decided to snuggle with Kiku again. Speaking of snuggling with Kiku…

He moved back into the bed to steal another kiss from Kiku, but before he could get too deeply into it he found Kiku moving away from him, Quickly! Yao’s eyes widened as the bed left him and his back roughly hit the floor. He was staring up at Panda whom had went into a rage and what’s more began to speak! “…P…Panda!?!” He grabbed panda’s fur, something was seriously wrong with this! “Panda stop!What are you doing!?”

The last thing that Vietnam is right now is jealous. She doesn't want China's attention - especially not the kind that causes him to shoot someone one moment and then cover them with kisses while they're lying there feverish the next. No, she's simply had it with watching her brother continuously compounding his idiocy. It's not that she wants to help either, necessarily - this is China's mess, not hers, but is she supposed to stand by and watch him make it bigger? She's tempted to do just that!

Just as she's about to respond with a piece of her mind, she suddenly feels a large hand on her should. Ah! Russia, even in the Panda suit, will undoubtedly be far more effective at knocking some sense into her eldest brother than she would. As is, unfortunately always the case. Well, if Russia is taking charge of China, then she ought to tend to poor Kiku.

Ignoring the loud protests of China - will he ever figure out that Russia's wearing a panda suit? Probably not... - instead she turns her full attention to Kiku. Who immediately gets an empathetic frown, and she sits next to him on the bed and quietly murmurs, "Shh, it will be okay, bạn Kiku! You have not been rude, and you do not need to apologize - this is all China's fault, not yours!" Her voice is a gentle coo as she carefully wipes the tears from his face, simply trying to calm and reassure him, "He's being himself again - you know what I mean. But you just need to rest and then you can fix everything."

When he mentions that he's cold, she immediately gets back up again and pulls the blankets over him, tucking him in but being careful around his chest. When she's finished, she sits next to him again and asks, "Is that better? Or is there more I can do? I can't untie you - that is China's fault." Japan may be the enemy, but she sees no reason why he has to be treated so cruelly. He was quite unkind to her during the last world war, but to be fair he was unkind to everyone in those days and he apologized for it later. With money, even!

Glancing briefly at her two allies, she turns back to Kiku and adds, "There is something else I wanted to tell you, but now I'm worried that you won't remember because you're not feeling well, and it's very important. But it won't be very easy for me to tell you later." Though perhaps if she prefaces it that way he'll manage to do so in spite of his fever, or she can only hope.

China wouldn’t have believed it was real if someone told him it happened. He’d seen panda do some amazing things but talking was out of this world amazing. He had panda for a long time but everything in him was telling him it wasn’t possible for Panda to talk. Unless Panda was exactly as special as he always claimed he was. That must have been it. But why was he so angry with him. Yao looked frightened as he stared up at Panda almost in awe. His eyes widened as Panda grabbed him and shoved his face toward a familiar map. Japan?

He was trying to take care of Japan. He already had him in his home. Panda had always loved Japan, what was going on? He blinked….Panda wanted him to invade Japan? He must have been just as worried for Kiku as everyone else was but to hold him to it this tightly was frightening. Panda was usually the better listener to his ideas not the person that gave a lot of input or any input for that matter. Panda had his complete attention. He didn’t even hear what his little sister was saying to his wounded Kiku.

He watched his paw go over the islands. This…was what panda wanted him to do. An invasion? But Panda knew where his troops were…Why would he make such a suggestion that he knew he couldn’t do. Almost all of his troops were in place it would have been suicide to bring them out now and panda knew that! Yao let out a yelp as he was suddenly grabbed again and Panda’s tone changed. He melted into ahis fur and let out a breath for the first time in some very intense moments. He pulled back from Panda a little and stared up at him to scold him. “Panda I don’t know what’s gotten into you but we’ve discussed what I’m doing in the war so you know that’s not possible. Why should we change now?” He patted his fur.

“I suppose you’re only worried about me.” he sighed and snuggled into him. “It’s okay Panda. We’re going to talk later about this newly developed speech you have. I wasn’t aware you could.” He reassured him and tried to pull back again. He really needed to tend to Kiku now. He’d have to go over his plans again with panda later. The bear had obviously forgotten them. He told him that munching loudly on those Bamboo branches was going to make him miss information!